Preceded by Richard Olney Name Louis Frothingham Role Member of the bar | Political party Republican Party Republican Party Spouse(s) Mary Shreve Ames | |
Governor Ebenezer Sumner Draper
Eugene Foss Born July 13, 1871
Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts,
United States ( 1871-07-13 ) Alma mater Adams Academy, Harvard University, 1893; Harvard Law School, 1896 Died August 23, 1928, North Haven, Maine, United States Books A Brief History of the Constitution and Government of Massachusetts: With a Chapter on Legislative Procedure Education Harvard University, Harvard Law School, Adams Academy Battles and wars Spanish–American War, World War I | ||
Preceded by Ebenezer Sumner Draper Succeeded by Richard B. Wigglesworth | ||
Louis Adams Frothingham (July 13, 1871 – August 23, 1928) was a United States Representative from Massachusetts. He was born in Jamaica Plain on July 13, 1871. He attended the public schools and Adams Academy. He graduated from Harvard University in 1893 (where he was a member of the Porcellian) and from Harvard Law School in 1896. He was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Boston. He served as second lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps in the Spanish–American War.
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He was elected a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and served as Speaker. He served as the 41st Lieutenant Governor 1909–1911, but was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor in 1911. He was lecturer at Harvard. He then moved to North Easton and continued the practice of law. He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1916. Frothingham served as a major in the United States Army during World War I. He was a member of the commission to visit the soldiers and sailors from Massachusetts in France. He served as first vice commander of the Massachusetts branch of the American Legion in 1919. He was overseer of Harvard University for eighteen years.
Marriage
On May 9, 1916, Frothingham married Mary Shreve Ames in North Easton, Massachusetts. Mary Shreve Ames was a member of the wealthy and prominent Ames family of Easton, Massachusetts, she was the sister of Frederick Lothrop Ames the great niece of Congressman Oakes Ames, and the first cousin, once removed of Oliver Ames who was Lieutenant Governor and Governor of Massachusetts.
Election to Congress
Frothingham was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1921, until his death on board the yacht Winsome in North Haven, Maine on August 23, 1928. His interment was in Village Cemetery in North Easton.